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The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
This unique RF box was also where the power supply connected in a unique dual power / television signal setup similar to the RCA Studio II's.
* The NTSC color broadcast system was engineered by RCA to be backward compatible with black-and-white NTSC television sets.
Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.
The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.
There were also rumors that Expansion Module # 3 was to have incorporated an RCA CED player to store larger amounts of data.
While he hadn't yet had a hit record on RCA Victor his stature was growing.
( At the time there was only one RCA studio in Nashville, with no letter designation.
When Porter left RCA in late 1964, Atkins said, " the sound was never the same, never as great.
In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.
Parton's first solo single for RCA, " Just Because I'm a Woman ", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen.
Other early synthesizers included Thaddeus Cahill's Dynamophone or Telharmononium ( before 1907 ), Jorg Mager's Spherophone ( 1924 ) and Partiturophone, the Theremin ( 1927 ), which was marketed by RCA, Taubmann's similar Electronde ( 1933 ), the Ondes Martenot ( 1928 ), Trautwein's Trautonium ( 1930 ).
" After his death, a friend of Armstrong estimated that 90 percent of his time was spent on litigation against RCA.
By early 1923, however, Armstrong was a millionaire as a result of licensing his patents to RCA.
The spacecraft was controlled by six RCA 1802 COSMAC microprocessor CPUs: four on the spun side and two on the despun side.
The RCA Dome, former home of the Indianapolis Colts, was known as the " Hoosier Dome " before 1994, when RCA paid for the naming rights.
The RCA Dome was replaced by Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.
The Hoosier Dome, which was later renamed the RCA Dome, had been built specifically for and was ready to host an NFL expansion team.
The first SES Astra satellite, the 16-channel RCA 4000 Astra 1A, was launched by the Ariane Rocket in December 1988.
In 1954, RCA Victor asked Steiner to prepare and conduct an orchestral suite of music from Gone with the Wind for a special LP, which was later issued on CD .< ref >
The group of manufacturers was first known as " IBM and the Seven Dwarfs ": IBM, Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General Electric and RCA.
Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

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Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.
Financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA and others, Armstrong lashed out at his wife one day with a fireplace poker, striking her on the arm.
Between 1922 and 1934, Armstrong found himself embroiled in a patent war, between himself, RCA, and Westinghouse on one side, and De Forest and AT & T on the other.
In addition to the multi-AV port ( almost same one as used on the Sega Genesis model 1, though they are not interchangeable ), all Neo Geo CD models had composite RCA A / V and S-Video out jacks on the rear of the console.
David Sarnoff, whose ambition and business acumen had helped RCA become one of the world's largest companies, turned the company over to his son Robert in 1970.
The historic RCA Building 17 is one of the few remaining buildings in Camden, New Jersey, that once housed the vast RCA Victor complex. The Nipper stained glass atop the " Nipper Tower " in the former Building 17.
The reader was connected directly to an RCA 301 computer ( one of the first solid state computers ).
But particularly with reference to the Art Deco mode – a style which goes unmentioned in Rand's novel – Hood in fact showed his creative versatility in designing two Deco skyscrapers so radically distinct from one another as the RCA Building and the McGraw-Hill Building.
CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s ; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC.
" Finding that NBC Red, NBC Blue, CBS, and MBS dominated American broadcasting, this report proposed " divorcement ", requiring the sale by RCA of one of its chains.
Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 — one for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their " outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia ", and the other to Stokowski " and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form ".
In 1982 Bob Smith ( Wolfman Jack ), ran into a radio engineer friend named Mike Venditti and he told Venditti that no one had been able to get XERF back on full power with its old RCA 250 kW transmitter, because RCA did not have any manuals relating to the equipment.
After extended negotiations, Monk signed in 1962 to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca.
The band felt they had performed horribly, but actually had three labels interested in them, RCA being one of them.
He was one of the first investors with Roy Scott in Holiday Inn, a new motel chain that was about to go national ; he became involved with the chain shortly after selling the rights to Elvis Presley to RCA for $ 35, 000 which he multiplied many times over the years with Holiday Inn.
In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight major American computer companies in an industry then referred to as " IBM and the seven dwarfs " — a play on Snow White and the seven dwarfs, with IBM, by far the largest, being cast as Snow White and the other seven as being dwarfs: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC, GE, RCA and Honeywell.
Martin also released two solo singles, one for Uni and one for RCA, which didn't appear on the album.
When RCA had asked if there was anything special he wanted as a signing premium, Nilsson asked for his own office at RCA, being used to working out of one.

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RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.
CBS rescinded its system in March 1953, and the FCC replaced it on December 17, 1953 with the NTSC color standard, which was cooperatively developed by several companies, including RCA and Philco.
In North America, Nuon was used in the Samsung DVD-N501 and DVD-N2000 models, they also released several models in other parts of the world: DVD-N504 ( Europe ), DVD N505 ( Europe ), and DVD-N591 ( Korea ); a Toshiba SD-2300 DVD player ; and two RCA models, the DRC300N and DRC480N.
During WWII and beyond, RCA set up several new divisions, for defense, space exploration and other activities.
The SelectaVision videodisc system, not to be confused with the same trademark that RCA applied to its VCRs, never developed the manufacturing volumes to substantially bring down its price, could not compete against cheaper, recordable videotape technology, and was abandoned in 1985 for a write-off of several hundred million dollars.
For several years, RCA spinoff L-3 Communications Systems East was headquartered in the building, but has since moved to an adjacent building built by the city for them.
The next few years saw a race to design, implement, and market several rival sound-on-disc and sound-on-film sound formats, such as Photokinema ( 1921 ), Phonofilm ( 1923 ), Vitaphone ( 1926 ), Fox Movietone ( 1927 ), and RCA Photophone ( 1928 ).
Mainframes and some early microprocessors such as the RCA 1802 required several instructions to call a subroutine.
After several months of this constant low-key touring schedule, however, he had sold enough albums to convince RCA to take a chance on extending his recording contract.
The Compact Cassette, in appearance and function essentially a miniaturized version of the RCA cartridge, was introduced by the Dutch firm Philips in Europe in 1963, and in the U. S. in late 1964, but it took several years to achieve significant market penetration.
Rumors had been circulating in the press for several weeks that Presley, who had begun his career at Sun Records, was ready to move to RCA Victor to help launch him nationally.
Heterojunctions ( formed from heterostructures ) had been recognized by Herbert Kroemer, while working at RCA Laboratories in the mid-1950s, as having unique advantages for several types of electronic and optoelectronic devices including diode lasers.
As a guest conductor in the 1960s, Seiji Ozawa made several recordings with the BSO for RCA Victor.
Enrique Jordá made several stereo recordings for RCA in 1957 and 1958, and an album for CRI in 1962.
This image was the basis for the dog and gramophone logo used by several audio recording and associated brands: His Master's Voice, HMV, EMI, RCA, Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Victor and JVC.
During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies, containing both the story and the songs.
RCA later signed the Isleys and recorded several singles.
The remaining three Shirelles recorded songs for several labels, including Bell Records, RCA, and United Artists until 1971.
After several thousand sets had shipped the situation was no better, while Panasonic and Toshiba were in the process of introducing sets based on RCA licenses.
Charlie Rich had several recordings produced by RCA as well as Charley Pride.
RCA has produced several notable Broadway cast albums as well, among them the original Broadway recordings of Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, the Mary Martin Peter Pan, Damn Yankees, Hello, Dolly !, Oliver !, and Fiddler on the Roof.
RCA Victor made several studio cast recording albums as well, including a Lerner and Loewe series with Jan Peerce, Jane Powell, and Robert Merrill, as well as a 1963 album of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with its 1952 revival leads, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, but a different supporting cast.
RCA Victor also issued several spoken word albums in the 1950s and 60s, notably the soundtracks of the films Richard III, A Man for All Seasons and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as complete versions of the National Theatre of Great Britain stage productions of Othello ( starring Laurence Olivier ) and Much Ado About Nothing ( starring Maggie Smith, who also played Desdemona in the Olivier Othello ).

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